Any coward can fight a battle when he’s sure of winning.
GEORGE ELIOTIt is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
More George Eliot Quotes
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What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?
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One can say everything best over a meal.
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The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.
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Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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Trouble’s made us kin.
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Examining the world in order to find consolation is very much like looking carefully over the pages of a great book in order to find our own name . … Whether we find what we want or not, our preoccupation has hindered us from a true knowledge of the contents.
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It is a common sentence that knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what ignorance in an hour pulls down.
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There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.
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After all, the true seeing is within.
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Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly under some degree of misrepresentation than to attempt to remove it by the uncertain process of letter-writing.
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Enveloped in a common mist, we seem to walk in clearness ourselves, and behold only the mist that enshrouds others.
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Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty – it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it.
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The right to rebellion is the right to seek a higher rule, and not to wander in mere lawlessness.
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It’s no use filling your pocket with money if you have got a hole in the corner.
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It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
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